How to pass variables in action Show("screen") ?

[Pippin123]

I have a screen called
LaserShot (x,y)

In another screen, there's an imagebutton that's supposed to call the first screen when clicked.
so the syntax is something like

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action Show("LaserShot")

Except I don't know how to pass the x,y variables.

I tried

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action (Show("LaserShot",(x,y))

, but no luck.

Anyone know the correct way to do this ?
Thanks

[PyTom]

You have to pass them as named arguments.

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action Show("LaserShot", x=x, y=y)

[Kaji]

Found this while trying to do the same sort of thing this evening and was concerned because I was getting TypeError notices when trying it out, and I wasn't sure if I was seeing anything about this in the Screen Actions documentation or not.

Was just about to post a question about it when I noticed one last thing to try out—and it started working.

TL;DR: If adding the named arguments isn't working for you, make sure that the screen definition includes those arguments! Once I added the parameters to my screen it started working.

=> This will fail and produce a TypeError because the screen doesn't know what to do with the values:

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screen item_entry():

...

action Show("item_entry", dissolve, selected_entry=selected_entry)

=> This will work because now it knows what to do with the value you're sending over:

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screen item_entry(selected_entry):

...

action Show("item_entry", dissolve, selected_entry=selected_entry)

[m_from_space]

Found this while trying to do the same sort of thing this evening and was concerned because I was getting TypeError notices when trying it out, and I wasn't sure if I was seeing anything about this in the Screen Actions documentation or not.

Actually, you can just simply pass the arguments without keywords, if you remind yourself, that the second argument has to be the transition that is used when showing the screen. In the case you don't want to pass the transition argument, you can just use keyword arguments of course. There is also a mistake in your example.

So let's assume we have a screen:

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screen sumtext(x, y):
    text str(x+y)

You can either do:

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# let's use normal arguments
Show("sumtext", None, 3, 4)

or

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# let's use keyword arguments
Show("sumtext", x=3, y=4)